Have you ever been alone in a crowded room when I'm here with you?

Have you ever been alone in a crowded room; well I'm here with you...

“Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
-- Mark Twain

Ah great, they've got the talent show and the badminton tournament all crammed into one week... I'm sure it's great and all, but why do they have to put the tournament on a day where we're more likely than not going to be dressed in civies during a week in which we are supposedly partaking in eventst that promote school spirit. That'll be a fun week... tournament on Tuesday, trip on Wednesday (I think), talent show on Thursday, and aparently, unless I'm wrong, no school on Friday or taht following Monday due to good Friday and Easter. Hmm... it seems a bit too... perfect in my opinion. Something's up.

I'm so lazy to post here... I think it's my lack of quotes.

I dreamed I had an interview with The Great Spirit.

"Come in," The Spirit said. "So, you would like to interview Me?"

"If you have the time," I said.

The Spirit smiled and said, "My time is eternity and it is enough to do everything; what questions do you have in mind to ask me?"

"What surprises you most about mankind?"

The Spirit answered;

"-That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.

-That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.

-That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future.

-That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never lived."

The Great Spirit's hands took mine and we were silent for a while and then I asked, "As a parent, what are some of life's lessons that children should learn?"

The Spirit replied with a smile;

"-To learn that they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is to let themselves be loved.

-To learn that a rich person is not the one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.

-To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and that it takes many years to heal them.

-To learn that there are persons who love them dearly, but simply do not know how to express or show their feelings.

-To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it totally different.

-To learn that it is not always enough that they be forgiven by others, but that they have to forgive themselves."

I sat there for awhile enjoying the moment. I thanked him for his time and for all that he has done for me and my family.

He replied, "Anytime. I'm here 24 hours a day.
All you have to do is ask for me, and I'll answer."

People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did.
But people will never forget how you made them feel.

“The player who knows how will usually draw.
The player who knows why will usually win.
Good players give their best in every match,
Every game, every move.
The master knows exactly the right moment to do nothing.
The popular player loses without an alibi,
Wins with grace, and draws with a smile.”
-- Tom Wiswell

WE WON THE FINALS MATCH!!!!!!! Yes, Stephen and I took first place home at the play all day badminton tournament down in Missassauga. haha, I'm so happy. So yeah um... the REALLY good players were strangely non-present today so Stephen and somehow managed to take advantage of that.

The key to the search, the quest to achieve,
Is Motivation.
To admire and derive accomplishments of great men,
Is Inspiration.
The quality to let the mind free beyond boundaries, beyond the impossible,
Is Imagination.
To start feeling those dreams, to think them true,
Is Perception.
The insight to tread one road, the eye to choose one right path,
Is Direction.
To walk that chosen road, count milestones as you cross by,
Is Perspiration.
The joy of looking back, and cherishing the way,
Is Realization.
To continuously better oneself, and the qualities that make them,
Is Improvisation.
The final struggle to see no spec, no fault,
Is Perfection.
To reach the light at the end of the long road, a wonderful feeling,
Is Destination.
-- Aishwarya Varadhan

I believe that will soon run out of quotes... like really this time. I haven't gone quote hunting since the end of Semester one and I'm kinda lazy to do it again so yeah. Erhm... everyone's so busy nowadays. I'm too bored sometimes, especially on weekends. Weekdays are the times when I drive myself to the limits of my reason trying to cram things into different schedules but weekends are so... blah, not to mention weeknights when there's no one to talk to. Anyways, I'm going to fall into depression if I keep this up and I haven't done so since the end of year finals LAST year. And I don't intend to break my streak.

“Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet
That clings fast to the heel that crushed it.”
-- George Roemisch

She arrives for her first badminton practice, neglects to bring her running shoes, and sends my new bird into the mass of duct work upon the ceiling roof... never to be seen again. Pah. The real badminton season's barely begun and I've already lost 5 of my somewhat expensive birds to either the comically low ceiling of the TCMS gymnasium, or to the agressiveness of fellow badminton compatriots who, having little regard for the fragility (is that even a word?) of the bird, insist on whapping the living crud out of a 5 gram piece of cork and nylon mesh, usually resulting in the cork of the bird detaching itself from the body, also commonly followed by the phrase "Oops, Jonathan I broke your bird... can I have another one?" Why am I always the supply center for birds, racquets, and practice schdules. Actually, it would seem like I have to prepare extra pairs of shoes for each player too. haha. Still, she made me run more than any other person besides Arthur... who by the way hasn't showed up for the last month of practices... if he doesn't start showing up for them, Mr. T's gonna cut him... and that would suck because then we'd have no one to play singles since I'm going mixed and apparently, you're not allowed to play in two categories.

"Before you criticize a man,
You must walk a mile in the mans shoes.
If he is still bothered by what you say,
It is okay,
Because you will be a mile away
And you will have his shoes."
-- Jeffrey N. Pappas

I haven't posted here in a while have I. Well, it doesn't really matter all that much cause nobody reads that. haha. Anyhow, went down to Ajax for yet another tournament... and the outcome was the same. Won the first game, and got massacred the second game.

In other news... played full contact football at David's place in the evening. We spent the first 30 mins cleaning the playing field of the remnants of the dog's bowel movements. I got slashed across the top of my right eye, Ryan hyperextended his leg, and Andrew got his head crushed against the ground. So it was a somewhat violent game but it was fun.